Researchers See Gigabit Data Over Power Lines
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Engineers at Penn State University said on Wednesday they had found a way for power lines to transmit data to homes at rates far faster than high-speed Internet connections from cable and telephone companies.
Broadband service over power lines has been highly touted by equipment makers and federal regulators as a possible competitor to cable and telephone services that handle nearly all of the 30 million U.S. residential broadband connections.
But despite dozens of trials, few electric utilities have attempted to sell the service to customers, citing cost and technical problems. The Penn State researchers said while the technology would improve, lowering the costs of power-line broadband would remain challenging…
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Yeah, I have something like that at home now. WLan was getting old, and the signal would be just too weak on some spots, so we switched to a DLan. Now I’m networking over the powerlines with speeds of max 85Mbit/s. (And yes, it is encrypted)